By Ben Myers | NOLA.com | December 15, 2021 Edward Michel, New Orleans’ interim inspector general, was permanently appointed Wednesday to the position to root out corruption, waste and abuse in municipal government. He is the fourth permanent appointment since voters agreed to create the Office of Inspector General in 2006. Michel assumed the interim…
By Mike Perlstein | WWL-TV | December 13, 2021 CLICK FOR INTERVIEW NEW ORLEANS — With an average of more than one murder a day so far in December, New Orleans has already surpassed its grim homicide total for 2020 with more than two weeks to go. With two murders over the weekend and another…
By JD Carrere | WWL-TV | December 11, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS — With 201 murders in the books for 2021, the City of New Orleans has equaled its murder total from 2020. Number 200 happened in the 9th ward around 2:30 in the afternoon. Number 201 less than a half-hour later uptown on…
By Lee Zurik and Cody Lilich | WVUE | December 10, 2021 NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – A senior special agent for the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board has been suspended without pay after separate investigations by the Office of Inspector General and FOX 8 News questioned the employee’s use of the police detail program.…
By Fox 8 Staff | KALB | December 10, 2021 NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Two people were killed in New Orleans on Fri., Dec. 10, pushing the city to over 200 homicides for the year. First, a man was shot multiple times in the Lower 9th Ward. The shooting happened around 2 p.m. in the…
By Paul Murphy | WWL-TV | December 9, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS — Homicides, carjackings and non-fatal shootings are all up in New Orleans. Not just for this year, but for the last two years according to Metropolitan Crime Commission President Rafael Goyeneche. “From 2019 to 2021, carjackings are up over 160 percent,”…
By Chris Nakamoto | WBRZ | December 7, 2021 CLICK FOR INTERVIEW BATON ROUGE- Watchdogs are raising questions about whether a law enforcement officer arrested for domestic violence battery with child endangerment should have been allowed to return to work even though his criminal charges are pending. Colby Burns was arrested last month after a woman…
By Fox 8 Staff | WVUE | December 7, 2021 CLICK FOR INTERVIEW NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Two men were shot and robbed in New Orleans while waiting for police to respond to a crash. According to the New Orleans Police Department, the two men were involved in a crash just before 10 p.m. on…
By Natasha Robin | WVUE | December 7, 2021 CLICK FOR INTERVIEW NEW ORLEANS – Two men got into a crash on the South Clairborne overpass around 9:30 p.m. on Monday. Before police could arrive, three armed men showed up. “Obviously, the suspects were just looking for victims,” says Rafael Goyeneche. The suspects robbed the…
By Mike Perlstein | WWL-TV | December 3, 2021 CLICK FOR INTERVIEW NEW ORLEANS — The mother of New Orleans Criminal Court Judge Robin Pittman was shot and critically wounded Thursday near her home in eastern New Orleans, the apparent victim of stray bullets aimed at someone else, according to witnesses and security camera video…